The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This was taken from goodreads.com/jess_readerwriter, I wrote the review freely and I apologize if the reviews are not written in a professional manner.

Synopsis: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.


My rating: 5 stars of 5
Beautifully crafted
Extraordinary characters
Unusual plotline


The Hunger Games stole my heart. As cheesy as it sounds, it did. Such a beautiful story. Okay, probably not the best word to describe it. But I'm not gonna say, "This was SUCH a gory, slightly disturbing tale about a game where everyone dies." Because that's just depressing. The Hunger Games was interesting, vivid, heartwrenching, romantic, heartfelt and all those other words you can think of.

The story begins with our main character, Katniss, who reveals much about herself in the first few chapters. How she met her best friend, Gale; how she feeds her family, how her father passed away, how she got her cat (That is more her sisters than anyones, it hates Katniss), how she makes money, and so on. Then, the day of the reaping approaches. Which is the day where one girl and one boy in each district is picked at random for The Hunger Games. Starting at 12, your name will go into the drawing once. But on the 8th day of every month, you can put your name in again and again and again in return of oil and grains. When the time comes, Prim (Named after the Primose flower) is picked and Katniss volunteers for a game where 25 people are thrown into an arena to fight to the death. The boy name is picked and it is Peeta Mellark, a boy from Katniss' childhood who once saved her life. Their journey continues through make overs, ceremonies, interviews, train rides, feasts, and training all leading up to the legendary Hunger Games. Finally, the time has come to start into the arena and the plot takes a huge spin.

The Hunger Games is a must read. A MUST READ. You will cry, you will giggle, you will smile, you will wince as if you, yourself, is actually apart of the book. Collins told such an amazing story, that I believed I was Katniss while reading this and felt her pain. Honestly, I'm not quite sure what the other books will bring but I'm excited to find out. And, if you want me to be completely honest, there are only two things that I didn't quite enjoy about the book. 1.) Way too little dialouge. But Collins couldn't help it, Katniss was by herself most of the time, what was she going to do, talk to herself? And 2.) Too much unnessecary story telling. You know, when there are random times where the other character will go into a long story about something pointless? Such as Katniss' story about how her sister, Prim, got her goat... Otherwise, this book doesn't have flaws. I'm glad that Suzanne Collins was able to tell this story so well because this plot could've been ruined by someone who had it all in their head but didn't quite know how to write it down, but Collins did. She wrote down her vision of this story, and it was amazing.